I turned 22 today! Woooo!!!! I am on vacation, visiting friends and my girlfriend, and I have no real responsibilities. I have spent lots of time reading DKos, SSP, playing chess and reversi on Yahoo, and playing Super Tecmo Bowl (the best game ever), and just relaxing.
I had planned on posting a birthday diary with lots of "presents" for all the Kossacks out there. Some funny jokes, an article I found where Larry King admits to NEVER HAVING USED THE INTERNET, and a bunch of other stuff.
But at 10 AM, my birthday not even half over, my reading on DKos has put me into a shitty mood. Because in addition to being a passionate 22-year-old progressive, who cares about the future of my country and my party, I am a Jew. Apparently to some people on this board, that is not ok.
I want to know what the FUCK is wrong with some of you people. Yes, I am talking to YOU,
Thy Neighbor, and to whoever wrote the absolute bullshit that
SatyriDon foolishly reposted here.
This is supposed to be a god damn PROGRESSIVE WEB SITE.
This sort of bigotry (and make no mistake about it, these diaries ARE anti-semitic) is absolutely unacceptable.
Can you even begin to imagine the backlash against a snarky diary, from both the DKos community and from outside, if someone posted a snarky diary about Bush placating Conyers by agreeing to spend the remainder of his term wearing blackface, eating fried chicken and drinking malt liquor? That diaryt would be innapropriate, and most likely, not funny. Much like some of the other drivel I have had to read this morning.
I mean, for God sakes. If someone posted a diary entitled, "Do I hate those god damn Japs?" Chances are, that person is racist. Chances are also that that sort of diary would not be treated so cordially.
Why the easy-going attitude when someone bashes on Jews? Probably becuase we've had it real easy the last 5000 years.
Whether you think it is funny or not, jokes about ritual Jewish human sacrifice are OFFENSIVE. That I even have to be writing this diary absoultely disgusts me. What is wrong with you people?
My RELIGIOUS beliefs have very little to do with me POLITICAL beliefs. A big "What the hell is wrong with you, you idiot??" goes out to anyone, liberal or conservative, friend or foe, to ANYONE who equates "Dan is Jewish" with "Dan must be an ardent supporter of all Israeli policy, both foreign and domestic."
I'm too upset to think of a clever or smooth-sounding closing to this diary, but I wil llet it suffice to say that I am pissed, and that if anyone here judges Jews based on Israeli politics, that person is, in my opinion, three things:
1: A bigot.
2: An idiot.
3: Not welcome here.
UPDATE: Good point made in the comments inthis diary, that the comments of the other two diaries mentioned here do attack the authors pretty well. "Easy going response" turns out not to be accurate. But, it still does not seem like the outrage I would expect.
And Thanks for all the birthday wishes!
And I accidentally write "dairies" for "diaries" all the time. :(